From an idea of the blog Art of Apex High School, I used a mask in PhotoShop to create crazy scribble line portraits. The technique is simple to learn but effective. You can watch this very short tutorial, less than 3 minutes, to learn how! https://vimeo.com/33344753 … [Read more...]

Through the Mini Matisse’s blog I found this blog named Know and Tell Crafts by a young blogger named Ty. There were some great tutorials and good ideas, and I tried painting a Digital Portrait with SketchBook Express for Mac. This is may result! I enjoyed it! … [Read more...]

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your … [Read more...]

My son is having fun in creating stop motions (simple video obtained by mounting a sequence of photos), with his new digital camera. I thought I'd publish some of them on my blog to suggest some ideas to be proposed at school (technology permitting).
The programs available are many, in general, any program to create video goes well, we use iMovie for the Mac, but on internet you can find a … [Read more...]

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I’m Miriam Paternoster, an Italian art teacher in a Middle School of North Italy. This blog is a place to share and explore lessons, educational systems and techniques, with other art teachers and classrooms around the world.